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Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XVIII
2 The worst of it was that that bullying old Pumblechook, preyed upon by a devouring curiosity to be informed of all I had seen and heard, came gaping over in his chaise-cart at tea-time, to have the details divulged to him.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter IX
3 I forget in detail what they were, but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama, and to end with crushing it; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXI
4 It was when I stood before her, avoiding her eyes, that I took note of the surrounding objects in detail, and saw that her watch had stopped at twenty minutes to nine, and that a clock in the room had stopped at twenty minutes to nine.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter VIII
5 And Mr. Jaggers made not me alone intensely melancholy, because, after he was gone, Herbert said of himself, with his eyes fixed on the fire, that he thought he must have committed a felony and forgotten the details of it, he felt so dejected and guilty.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XXXVI
6 Although I had sent Mr. Jaggers a brief account of the accident as soon as I had arrived in town, yet I had to give him all the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and less strictly regulated by the rules of evidence, than it had been before.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter LI
7 I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on his great hand.
Great ExpectationsBy Charles Dickens ContextHighlight In Chapter XVIII